Sunday, 1 February 2015

Colors of valentine !

Welcome to
my page today…I would like to thank my followers “old” and New” and for those
who take the time to stop by and leave a comment, I love to read them all!

Welcome to
the official month of LOVE!

This is my
DT project for Rhedd’s Creative Spirit for this month. It is always Anything
Goes and you can create any form of altered art or 3D project. So come on and
play along and do drop by to see the amazing works of the team.

I have
always wondered about the colors of love, why should it always be red and
black. I have played with Ms. Worn Lipstick and Mr. Peacock feathers for a
change and I must admit their romance is pretty colorful.

Do you want
to see…..

I have
altered a “Mills and Boon” book for this project…perfect for the month, lol!

I also
experimented with printing on tissue at home on a Ink Jet printer and being
successful, would like to share the process with you.

Here we go…

I first
adhered a tissue paper to the printer paper with washi tape and inserted it
onto the printer as always.

I then compiled a set of pics to be printed on one
page, here are some lovely vintage pics from We Love Vintage Challenge
Blog…just my type!

And once I
gave the “print” command…out comes the lovely print on the tissue paper. Oooo…I
just love it…I carefully removed the backing and it was ready to hit my
project.

Hope that was helpful for you.

Now to the
main project…

I knew it
was going to be vintage and with the main colors in mind, I added a few more
supportive colors for the tags. I din’t want to restrict my valentine project
to just a couple, and so I have a sister, brother, father or friend images for
the tag.

The tags
are Joy crafts die cuts and I colored them typical Tim style by applying inks
on the craft mat, sprit zing water and swooshing the tag to get lovely patters.
Than a little water flick and I just loved the impact. I then did some bg
stamping using brown archival ink and the base of the tags were to be altered.

For the
front of the tag, I stuck the tissue print of images and some TH quotes with
gel medium. At the back of each tag, I stamped the months so that I can jot
down things to be done for that month! The functional part you see…lol!

The ornate
top of the tag was heat embossed in gold and my tags were ready to be displayed
in style!

I then
folded the pages of the book and then inked in worn lipstick and edged with
vintage photo and some peacock feathers too…after all its their romance
right???

A gilding
of gold on the page folds on the top, gave it a royal touch and the tag stand
was ready.

I covered
the book using some lovely PP from K& Co and started working on the front and back
display mats. Swished out some home made texture paste to it and added gold
color and glitter to the paste and created hearts using TH stencil.

I love the
subtle glitter of the gold, I have to thank Pamellia of ‘My Little Craft Things”
for introducing this formula. Thanks buddy…this is a hit.

Roses, had
to be there and so made them with TH tattered florals die and inked them too
and placed them on the font and back until I liked them.

Here is the
front side…

To add some
more dimension, I placed the flowers on a bed of coconut coir( I love it) and
added some leaves, a twine bow and a golden flourish! I plaited 3 strands of twine and knotted the ends to form tassels. I then inked it with peacock feathers and rubbed inks gold a on the tassels and made a bow. I think it's a little beauty out there!

The corners have ornate
book corners colored with alcohol inks and look at those lovely butterflies
hovering. I cut them out from the Mariposa paper pack, inked the edges, applied
rock candy distress crackle paint and then rubbed in Inka gold on the cracks!

This is the
back display..

A few tags
are casually placed on the mat here.

That brings
us to the end of the romantic journey and I am eagerly waiting to hear from you
and to also see what you have created for this challenge.

This is beautiful and something I have yet to try. I cant bring myself to use one of my books ao will have to visit a charity shop. I love all the colours and techniques used - I just love everything about it hun xxx

Great alteration again, as always I could not find initially what trash has turned out to this beauty. I must admit... I am love with those wonderful tags, I can see the DI colors and texture you have created with sprinkling water on it. And text stamping blended beautifully!! Usually, I am not big fan of gold but the way you have used here is subtle and elegant.. very much you !!Gorgeous creation!!I would catch up with you and am excited I'll be able to see this personally!

My buddy, its so nice to have you pop inhere. Really appreciate your taking the time and glad that it suits your color senses too! That's really a bonus for me! Hope to meet you soon and catch up. Hugs.

WOW WOW WOW Rupa, I am completely swooning over this project right now! This is such an amazing idea and you have just taken it to the heavens with your style and beauty! Thank you so much for the shout out. I am so glad you gave my glitter paste a go, and I'm even more excited about how you used it...INCREDIBLE!!

I am just so honoured and thrilled and I thank you so much for playing along with me at Frilly and Funkie for my Valen-Twines challenge!! Big super hugs to you, Pamellia DT

Thanks my friend, really that glitter paste is amazing and now I know why you are hooked to it. I t was my pleasure to reach it out to more people. Really, so happy you liked it. have a great week ahead dear. Big hugs from here.

Rupa Swaminathan - I loved all your creations.....just awesome..... and after seeing your creations, am also getting attracted to altered stuffs off-late...... Could you tell me which die have you used to make the rose flower???

Thanks Shlna...I am glad you are liking this art. You are amazing with your works and its a pleasure to be able to teach you few of my secretes! lol...the flowers are made using Tim Holtz Tattered florals die, the biggest flower. Hope you try. Thanks.

Wow Rupa you are a very creative lady ! I thought your altered iron was amazing and now another fab project. Perfect to use a good old Mills and Boon ! your flowers are gorgeous and I love your tissue paper printing . thank you for the stepper on that, can't wait to try that out. love all those stamped and printed tags.thank you for joining us at the ATP Exchange Toni x

What a beauty Rupa! So many wonderful elements and details. I love the Month cards you made and the printing on tissue worked so well. I'm really pleased that you went away from the normal colours of 'love' - it's a wonderfully refreshing change! Your flowers are gorgeous too. Thanks so much for joining my challenge at ATP Exchange. Juliax

Oh Rupa, I absolutely ADORE this project!!! The idea of altering a Mills and Boon made me laugh out loud, what a totally brill idea!! The way you have put the whole project together is fantastic and I totally love it!! Thanks so much for adding it to our Love is in the Air challenge at A Vintage Journey!